Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Elizabeth Davalos

Provisional Engineer DetachmentLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProvisional Engineer Detachment

Related Profiles

R. B. Crum

Hanford, WA

Donald Ames

Chicago, IL

Donald Ames joined the Manhattan Project as a G.I. at the University of Chicago in 1943. Ames worked under Nobel Prize chemist Glenn Seaborg at the Metallurgical Laboratory, where he helped determine the chemical properties of plutonium and developed a rapid method for measuring the radium concentration in solutions.

Lucien Nerman

Chicago, IL

Lucien Nerman was a security guard at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Harry W. Strock

Hanford, WA